The romantic economist
Subtitle: a story of love and market forces
By: William Nicolson
Edition: 1st Marble Arch Press trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Marble Arch Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781476730417
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Relations with women; Dating (Social customs); Economists; Anecdotes
Description: The author sets out to apply the rules of economics to save his floundering love life. For a time, everything seems to be clearer, but soon he finds himself more isolated than ever. It looks like economics doesn't have all the answers after all. Not, that is, until John Maynard Keynes comes along.
Table of contents: title: About this book: Assumptions and qualifications; title: Playing hard to get: supply and demand; title: Too good to be true: the efficient market hypothesis; title: The "you'll do' horizon: market power; title: The wine bluffer's dilemma: game theory; title: He loves me, he loves me not: signalling preferences under uncertainty; title: The Hugh Grant paradox : signalling preferences under uncertainty (part two); title: The battle of the diaries: bargaining power; title: Going exclusive: investment; title: Fruit punch and flirtatious girlfriends: the strategy of conflict; title: Hiding the crazy: credible threats; title: That empty feeling: sunk costs and opportunity costs; title: Calling it a day: backwards induction; title: Finding Keynesian love.